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To be fair, the Coastal Commission staff and its commissioners are not beyond reproach, nor have commissioners always served with honor, so scrutiny and pushback ought to be part of the process.

Governor Robert Orr, R-Ind., was disciplined and kind and his ethics were beyond reproach.

Simpson was led by the public's perception, or his interpretation of it, that enough ubiquity and money places a person beyond reproach.

“His work is beyond reproach,” Farah said in a phone interview on April 5.

Gavin Newsom is hardly beyond reproach.